Nader: Ted Cruz is 'a train wreck'

Former third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader doesn’t think much of Sen. Ted Cruz, calling him a “train wreck” in a new interview.

“Ted Cruz you know, he’s a train wreck,” Nader said on Larry King’s “ Politicking” on Ora TV on Thursday night. “He’s willing to shut down government, willing to tie up the Senate. He doesn’t seem to be able to have a two-way conversation.”

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Nader also slammed the Texas Republican for his ties to Big Business, a criticism the activist has also leveled at politicians including President Barack Obama.

“I don’t think he’s really all that libertarian,” Nader said of the tea party favorite. “I think he has corporatist tendencies, Big Business tendencies, regardless of his rhetoric, but he’s not accomplishing much. If he was really serious, he would push a movement to get all government contracts online. … He’s not achieving anything.”

The independent politician also criticized Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who he said “militarized the State Department,” for not doing much of substance.

“I think she hasn’t accomplished much,” Nader said. “She won’t even come out for a higher minimum wage, which even right-wingers now have come out for.”

He said Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have ignored pressure to make even small moves on minimum wage.

“We have written and other people have asked the Clintons in New York City to come out for a minimum wage for 30 million people at least equal to the minimum wage in 1968 adjusted for inflation. I mean, that’s no big deal,” Nader said. “They won’t come out for it, it’s all about rhetoric”